Matt Henderson's Blog

Each year in May, for the past 11 years, the Spanish Legionnaires (“La Legión”, a Spanish military wing) organizes the famous, “101 km of Ronda” event, in which the 5,000+ participants endure a 101 kilometer (66 miles) tour through the mountains and sierras surrounding the beautiful namesake city of Ronda.

My wife and I participated for the first time last year, 2006.

Today we decided to do a hike a little closer to home. Driving through Casares, we’d often noticed a few signs on the side of the road indicating hiking routes.

I’ve created a new category in the blog here: Routes. In this category, I’ll be recording the details of the hiking routes we do, including a description, links to trip photos on Flickr, and a downloadable archive of two files:

• A Google Earth .kml file, which you can load into Google Earth for a satellite image-based view of the route.

• A .gpx file of the “track”, suitable for downloading to a GPS device.